1.   The strange but arresting creatures become instant celebrities.

2.   He became an instant celebrity with the publication of his first novel.

3.   Arriving at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Makeba became an instant celebrity, introducing Americans to the music of South Africa.

4.   Achieving instant TV celebrity was heady, he writes.

5.   But Robinson also became an instant celebrity, drawing huge cheering crowds, black and white, to the ballparks where he played.

6.   Children pick a theme, such as a movie, and insert their name in the credits to make them instant celebrities.

7.   Embittered by years of racial discrimination and tempted by the rewards of instant celebrity, he struggles not to lose his humanity amid the hoopla.

8.   For the writer, I can do without the instant celebrity, the pool of drool in the parking area.

9.   Her instant celebrity has meant traveling through a gantlet of interviews, including a prime-time sitdown with Barbara Walters.

10.   He went from backup status to instant celebrity along Tobacco Road last week when he helped the Hurricanes eliminate the Devils in a first-round playoff series.